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Have you ever felt that you knew what someone was going to say just before he said it?

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Or have you ever stepped into a strange room and had the sensation you'd been there before?

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If you have, you've taken a small step beyond.

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Now watch a giant step.

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It begins here, in Wandsworth Prison near London.

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The year?

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1895.

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Our principal player was one John Marriott.

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Today's a big day in his life.

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He's to be hanged.

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Come on now then, Johnny lad.

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No need for you to look at that, you know.

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Here.

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Have a smoke.

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Come on, Johnny boy, your go.

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It's hot in here.

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It's hot.

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Why not?

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When do they come for me?

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At six.

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What time is it now?

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I don't know, 5.30.

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Does it take long?

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What?

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How?

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Nah.

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How long?

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How long?

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Well, I don't know.

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A couple of minutes maybe.

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Now come on, Johnny me boy, there's no need for you to be afraid.

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Who's afraid?

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I am.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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I'm not afraid.

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Who's afraid?

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Well, a bloke as popular with the ladies as what you want.

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What do you mean, was?

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I don't judge it.

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I am the executioner, sir, at your service.

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This is my assistant.

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It's not time yet.

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You're quite correct, sir.

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You have exactly 21 minutes.

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Will you please step on this scale there?

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What do you need my weight for?

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11 stone, sir.

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11 stone.

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71 inches.

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71 inches.

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71 inches.

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71 inches.

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71 inches.

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Breakfast here, Johnny boy.

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Don't want it.

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It's your very last breakfast.

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Take that slop away.

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I don't want it.

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Can't look at it.

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I don't...

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Are you all right, my son?

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Is there anything I can do for you?

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Anything you wish?

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Any final confession you want to make?

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She just sat there with her head twirled back laughing at me like I was some kind of worm or something.

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I didn't mean to kill her, I swear.

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I didn't, but the way she laughed when I caught her with that dandy beluga,

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all I could see was her throat.

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I just grabbed it.

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I grabbed it.

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And all the time she kept laughing.

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Her mouth, her voice.

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I can hear it now.

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Screaming.

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My hand's scratching at me.

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Well, maybe she wasn't laughing.

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Maybe she was only screaming.

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Sure, there was fellow Gishy scream and there was Paddy O'Neil and everybody in London knows all about that.

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It was like a bomb exploding in my ear.

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I fell and went out of my mind.

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The Lord is merciful to all his poor sinners.

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I know, I know I'm a sinner.

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I know.

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The things I've done, really, if I ever really started to confess.

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You know what I've done once?

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I never told nobody this.

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I pushed a blind beggar into the gutter and I rubbed his tin cup.

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It was eight pennies and four shillings and half a crown.

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I meant to pay him back every cent but I never did.

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I went to absentee and I laid a wager on a nag named Alma's eyes.

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That nag is still running.

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There was this sweet old lady there and she'd never seen a race before.

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So I swapped my ticket with hers and hers was a winner.

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Paid 15 to 1.

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That week I crawled through every pub from mere to white all.

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That was the week I met Alma.

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I know I never should have touched that blind man.

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I never should have touched Alma.

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The things I do because the lady has a pretty pair of eyes.

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But I can't help myself.

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Please.

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Please don't abandon me.

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You must be brave, my son.

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Please.

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John Marriott, Ben Jofrey.

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Pray.

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Pray.

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I can't.

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Try that.

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I can't.

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I can't.

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I can't.

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Lord is my shepherd.

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I don't want to die.

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No.

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You must leave tonight, honey.

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I don't want to die.

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You leave tonight.

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No.

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No.

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Hey!

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Hey!

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Hey!

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I will fear no evil, for it is a table to pour me in the presence of mine enemies.

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I come front for you.

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In holy goodness and mercy You have followed me all the days

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Come on.

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I've been the executioner for 19 years and it's never happened before, sir.

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We examine that rope very thoroughly, as we always do.

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Well, how is he, doctor?

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Oh, he's coming around.

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It was merely shock.

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There was no physical damage at all.

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Are you quite certain?

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Quite.

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Then let's get on with the execution.

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You're wasting your time, governor.

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If you think that I'm going to die on your blasted gallows, you've got another thing

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coming, because I'm not.

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Marriott, I'm sorry about the accident, but the court has sentenced you to be hanged.

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But that's the point, governor.

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It wasn't no accident.

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Let's get on with it.

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Think nobody here can kill me.

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Not if you've tried for a hundred years and a hundred ways.

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Not you.

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Not you.

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Not the executioner.

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Not nobody.

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I said, let's get on with it.

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Hold on, hold on.

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I haven't had any breakfast.

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What are you going to do, hang me without giving me any grub?

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I thought you said you didn't want any.

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Oh, now I do.

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It's unhealthy for a man to miss his breakfast.

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All right, but hurry.

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Oh, good.

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I haven't had a meal like this since the trial.

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You blokes don't normally give a man time to stow his grub, do you?

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Would you stand, please?

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I don't mind.

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Hey!

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Hey, you blokes!

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You're just wasting your time!

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If you want to know why, I'll tell you!

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Don't you forget to have a nice lunch waiting for me.

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I want some roly-poly pie.

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Hey, where's me brandy?

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I want me brandy!

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What kind of a hanging is this?

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They'll follow me all the day.

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This is my last night.

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Save your breath, Vicar.

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They're not hanging me.

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You're wasting your time.

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That's enough.

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Oh, now, here we go.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

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That's my lucky number.

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Oh, no, I don't want that.

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You sure you don't want the odd?

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Might make it easier for you.

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I don't need it any easier, mate.

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All right.

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This time, just to make sure, we'll try it once more.

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Ready?

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You're wasting your time, boys!

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You sure you don't want the odd?

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No, I don't want the odd.

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Go a little to the left, a little to the left.

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You're getting so good at this job, I think I might become the executioner.

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Executioner.

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All right.

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I told you he was wasting your time.

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You can't hang me!

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Why, don't you give a...

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Enough.

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Take him back to his cell.

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The man who can't be hanged.

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But why?

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Why do you think they're unable to hang you, Mr. Marius?

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Maybe there's a good angel watching over me.

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More than likely it's the devil, I'd say.

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Oh, I don't much mind who's watching over me, angel or devil.

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Just so long as it's somebody with influence.

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As a matter of fact, quite a lot of people with influence are interested in you, Mr. Marriott.

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Oh.

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Your case has been debated right now in the House of Commons.

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Mr. Gladstone thinks that you should be set free, that you've suffered enough.

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Well, now, that makes two of us.

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But seriously, Mr. Marriott, don't you have some theory as to why you couldn't be hanged?

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Oh, I know why I couldn't be hanged.

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And if one of your iron-mighty papers is willing to pay...

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500 quid for the information.

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500 pounds?

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That's not very likely.

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Then I'm not very likely to tell.

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Whistling

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Oh.

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I wager you hate to see me go, eh, Governor?

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I hate to see anyone make justice look foolish.

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Oh, come now, Governor, don't take on so.

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If you was to put me up on that there gallow 50 times, you still couldn't hang me.

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Now go on home, Marriott.

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You want another try at me, now, Governor?

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I'd be glad to oblige.

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Now get out of here.

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You're smart not to take me up, Governor, because I'd win, sure as I'm standing here.

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You know how I know?

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Well, you listen, and I'll tell you.

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Just when they was...

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When they was pulling that herd over my head, and the rope snapped...

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I saw how old John Marriott was going to die.

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And it wasn't on no gallows.

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I said get out.

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Shh.

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It's your jail, Governor.

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Now go home, will you?

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I'm going to die in a most amazing way, Governor.

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In a most remarkable way.

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Some more for Marriott, too.

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Don't let them ruby lips get dry.

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You know, when they takes you to the gallows,

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they often show a glass of brandy, now, ain't that sweet of them?

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I bet you had the old bottle, eh, Johnny?

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Almost.

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You should have seen their faces when them gallows wouldn't work.

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That Blumen executioner, he kept kicking,

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kicking that released boat till I thought he'd have a stroke.

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You and that noose around your neck.

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Weren't you scared?

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Scared what for?

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They couldn't hang me, not if they tried.

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Till doomsday.

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Oh, come off it, Johnny.

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How could you know?

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Devilish stuff.

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Whispered in my...

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Johnny!

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Oh, Liz!

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Where have you been, oh, you Blumen, like a rose?

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You know who's coming in here?

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Will Cooper!

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Did you miss me while I was in the gallows?

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Johnny, Will, he's coming, he's coming!

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Come on, give us a kiss.

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Johnny, he's got a gun!

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Come on, Liz, have an ale.

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Two ales, Georgie, one for Liz, and one for Will when he gets here.

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Ain't you afraid he'll kill you?

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Will?

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Will's a mouse, not a lion.

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You want to know how I'm going to die?

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I'll tell you.

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There's only one way I can die.

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One way, and no other.

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Now, gather round.

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Gather round and I'll tell you about my vision.

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Though the press offer me 500 quid, I won't charge you a farvation.

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Johnny, Johnny!

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Old Johnny Marriott's going to die at the foot of a lion,

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right here on the streets of London.

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That's how it's going to be, I know.

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I was standing there on them gallows.

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I was standing there with that white oat over my head.

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And I heard them release the lever, and I heard them trap doors swinging open,

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and I felt myself falling.

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And while I was falling, the inside of that oat lit up like a million candles.

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And there I was, lying dead at the feet of a lion,

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right here on the streets of London.

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And I knew.

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I knew that's how it had to be.

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That way, and no other!

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Turn around, John.

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Another ale, Georgie.

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If you think you can kill my sister and go scot-free, you've got another thing coming!

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Too much head on that ale, Georgie.

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Turn around, John, or I'll shoot you right in the back!

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That's better, Georgie.

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Hey! Hey, you know, you know Alma Cooper?

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That girl, what arse, Spangold?

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Well, I hear her brother's looking for revenge. Now you tell him, will you?

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You tell him that if Alma were alive, I'd kill her again right now.

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Ain't right?

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She deserved everything she got.

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And you deserve what you're gonna get, John Marriott!

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Try the gang, will!

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You couldn't at me. You couldn't at me with a cannibal!

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Not with a whole regiment of guerrillas to back you up!

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You couldn't at me unless you could bring the jungles of Africa up here to London.

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Well, I'll come right back!

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And I'll lift up that pistol and shoot you!

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Get the gear up!

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Come on, Lou! Bang that piano!

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Let's have some dancing!

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What is it, a funeral?

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Ooh!

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Oh, now, what's wrong?

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What's everybody looking at me like that for?

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What is it, my auntie?

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Oh, it's nothing, dear.

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It's nothing, dear.

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It's nothing, dear.

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It's nothing, dear.

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It's nothing, dear.

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It's nothing, dear.

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What's everybody looking at me like that for?

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What is it, I am some sort of spook?

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Oh, what's your mind at rest on flesh and blood?

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Yes!

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And when that lion finally catches up with me, I'll prove it!

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Yes, I'll prove it!

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The devil himself!

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Oh, blast!

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The lot of you!

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Oh, every one of you! Rot!

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I'm no more haunted than you are.

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You're all going to die, same as me.

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Only difference is, I know how!

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Shunny Murriot's esquire will face any lion living or dead and spit in his blooming eye!

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Hello!

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Oh, there you are, you beast!

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Oh, you big angel!

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Big, big angel!

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I suppose if you got me in your jaws, there wouldn't be much left now, would there?

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If you're going to do me, you do me now, eh?

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Come on!

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Drag him off! Drag him off!

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Drag him off!

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Drag him off!

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Drag him off!

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Drag him off!

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Drag him off!

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Well, I'm feeling a bit thirsty, so...

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...tot's all, catch!

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What are you doing here in the middle of the hour?

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Hey, come here, you! Come here!

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Come here!

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Hey, hey, come back here!

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Come back here! Hey!

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Come back!

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He's broke his blooming neck! He's stone dead!

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You find them all over London.

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They're a symbol of Britain, you know.

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